Yes! he said. I heard it! Many minutes, many hours, many days have I heard it - but I did not dare to speak! We have put her living in the vault! Did I not say that my senses were too strong?
The best scene—the one which froze Chris and me into our seats—depicted John Kerr digging into a castle wall and discovering the corpse of his sister, who was obviously buried alive.
But men too had had their trials, and the conversation went off into certain philosophical reflections. Emma expatiated much on the misery of earthly affections, and the eternal isolation in which the heart remains entombed.